This document discusses using technology tools like Twitter, Skype, and blogging to shift classroom focus from teachers to active learning among students. It provides examples of students using these tools to solve problems, discuss topics, and share work in and outside of class. Benefits mentioned include cultivating collaboration among students across states and countries through sharing ideas on education. The document also discusses replacing traditional essays with blogs, social media, and multimedia to allow students to more persuasively argue and communicate ideas.

2. • Can transform your classroom

3. shift the focus of activity from the
teacher to the learners. These methods
include active learning, in which
students solve problems, answer
questions, formulate questions of their
own, discuss, explain, debate, or
brainstorm during class;

4. • Twitter
• Skype
• Blogging
–Clustermaps
–RSS

5. • Seek – Go, Explore, Discover!
Twitter, Facebook, Skype and Scoop-it.
• Sense – Understand, Do, Create, Remix
Share it back on Twitter or Facebook..
• Share – Pay It Forward
share slides on Dropbox or Slideshare.
That way you take part of the sharing
culture.

6. • @schink10 Twitter = the ultimate
collaboration tool. I now have friends in
every state & internationally who share a
passion for education #digileadwv

7. • What are the benefits of
using this with students
• Talk with your shoulder parner

11. • Show website here.

14. Shelley Wright‘
“I used to think the essay was the Holy Grail of
the English classroom. Now I honestly believe it’s
one of the least useful forms of communication I
teach, at least in the 5-paragraph essay format. I
still believe it’s important for my students to be
able to persuasively argue, but now they learn
how to do it via blogging, social media, and using
visual and audio formats.

15. 1. Spelling mistakes use spell-checker options in their
Browser. I now use Google Chrome and the built in spell-checker
extension
2. Peer review. Not only for content but helping each
other with language structure, grammar and spelling.
3. Sources, images and videos. Teach
students. Wikimedia commons is a great place to find
images, sounds and video you can use in your blog. Flickr:
creative commons is one, Google Advanced Search